The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-07-21
Rough men, knowing that he comes from

low street, say:
'.Back with you. you little villain, to the
place you come from.n
But that night the boy says: ssGod help
me, can not go back.''
And quicker than ever mother few at
the cry of child's pain, the Lord re-
spends from the heavens: 'sCourage, poor
boy, courage"
His bright face gets him position.
After awhile he is second clerk. Years
pass on, and he is fist clerk. Years
pass on. The glory of young manhood is
on him. He comes into the firm. He
goes on from one business success to
another. He has achieved great
fortune. He is the friend of the Church
CT God, the friend of all coed institu.
tions, and one day he stands talking to
the Board of Trade, or to the Chamber OF
Commerce
People say: DO you know what that
isl Why, that is merchant prince, and
he was born on Elm street."
But God says in regard TO him some
thing better than that.
These are they that came out Of great tribu-
lat'on, and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb.
o, for some one to write the history of
b y heroes and girl heroines who have
triumphed over want and starvation, and
fifth and ragsi Yea, tho record has al
ready been made-nade ny the haad of.
God; and when these shall come at last
with songs and rejoicing, 1t will take a
very broad banner 70 hold the names of
all the battle-fe DIS ON which they got the
victory.
Some years ago a roughly clad, ragged
boy cam, into my brothers. offics in New
York and said:
''Mr. Talmage, lend ma FIVE dollars.n
MY brother s lid: 'tWho are n usn
The boy replied: II am nobody Lend
me five doilars.''
tWhat do you want to do with five dol
lars2"
'WelI," the boy replied, 'my mother is
sick and poor, and I want to go into the
newspaper business. and l sh Ill get a
homo for her, and will pay you back"
My brother gave HIM five dollars, of
course never expecting to see it again;
but he said:
"When will you pay its"
The boy said: 81 will pay it in six
months, sir.''
Time went by, and one day Lad came
into my brothers office, and said:
'There's your five dollars
"What do you meana What five dol
larsa" inquir ed my brother.
sDon't you remember that q boy came
in here six months ego and wanted to
borrow five dollars to go into the news
paper businessl"
20, yes, l remember; are you the lad7"
EYES," he replied. 81 have got along
nicely. / have got nice home for my
mother (she IS sick YETI, and I am as
well clothed as you are, and there's your
five dollars"
O, was he not worth saving? Why,
that lad is worth fifty such boys as have
sometimes seen moving in elegant cir
cles, never put to any use for God or man.
Worth savingi / go farther than that,
and tell you they are not only worth saw
ing, but they are being saved. One OF
these lads picked up from our streets,
sent West by benevolent society, wrote
East, saying:
II am getting along first rate. am on
probation in the Methodist Church
shall be entered as a member the first of
next month. / now teach Sunday
school class of eleven boys. I get along
first rate with it. This is splendid
country to make living in. II the boys
running around the streets with a black
| ing box on their shoulder, or bundle of
pa pers under their arms, only knew what
high old times we boys have out here,
| they wouldn't hesitate about coming
West. but come the first chance they got -
So some by one humane and Christian
visitation, and some by another, are being
| rescued In one reform school, through
which 1000 Of the little ones passed. /, 995
| turned out well. In other words, only five
| of the two thousand turned out badly.
There are thousands of them who,
| through Christian societies, have been
transpl intel to be au.iful homes all over
| this land, and there are many who,
| through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown.
| A little girl was found in the streets OF
| Baltimore and taken into one of the re-
form societies, and they said to her:
| "What is your namea" She said: ssMy
| name is Mary
| 'What IS your other namep' She said
| 81 don't kuow.n
| So they took her into the reform society.
and as they did not know her last name
they always called her "Mary Lost" since
she had been picked up out Of the street
But she grew on, and after awhile the
Holy Spirit came to her heart ard she
/ oOSoAAO u Sttiiio Oldu CHliOy anu Suo changed
her name; and when anybody asked he,
what her name was she said:
sit used to be Mary Lost, butnow, since
have become Christian, it is MARY
Found.n
| For this vast multitude are we willing
to go forth from this mornings service
and see what we can do, employing al
the agencies I have spoken of fol
the rectifcation of the poisone.
fountainsa We live in a beautiful
city. The lines have fallen to us in pleas
ant places, and we have goodly her
itage; and any man who does not like
residence in Brooklyn must be a most un
comfortable and unreasonable man. But
my friends. the material prosperity of
city is not its chief glory. There may b,
fine houses and beautiful streets, and tina
all be the garniture of sepulcher. Som
of the most prosperous cities of the work
have gone down, not one stone left upo1
another. But city may be in ruins
long before tower has fallen, Of
a column has crumbled, or a toni
has been defaced. When in a city til.
churches of God are full of cold formali.
ties and inanim ate religion; when tn,
houses OF commerce are the abode oil
fraud and unholy traffic; when the
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